Paulane – Painter
The visual artist Paulane was the first with his friend Kalidou Kassé to open a gallery in Senegal
The visual artist Paulane was the first with his friend Kalidou Kassé to open a gallery in Senegal
Senegalese plastic artist Chalys Lèye lives between Senegal and France. His painting works on the signs drawn from the making of the talisman called khatim (animist traditions), but also on Koranic verses.
Sylvain Domingo, this painter works more on music and dance. Her studio is crammed with paintings showing women performing dance steps and musicians forming an orchestra. The woven loincloth appears on all his creations.
Seni Mbaye is a renowned painter and sculptor, who has developed various styles both abstract and figurative during his career, he expresses through his works the very essence of Africa, its culture, its intensity, its vitality.
Amadou Dieng was born in 1951, in the Medina district of Dakar. His paintings are reminiscent of African printed fabric, or a kind of animal coat … But ultimately it doesn’t matter, because the artist himself, the plastic artist Amadou Dieng, wouldn’t offend.
The painting Mohamed Ndir aka « Dou » wants to denounce a situation. She casts a tender gaze on desperate children. It prompts us to look at them not only with our eyes but also with our hearts.
Amadou Makhtar Mbaye (aka Tita), is a contemporary Senegalese artist, painter, sculptor and plastic arts teacher. His works imbued with great symbolism are the result of an unconscious search for his cultural roots. The very material of his work bears the mark of the African soil.
Ousmane Ndiaye Dago, is a Senegalese designer, graphic designer and photographer who lives and works in Dakar. The female body is at the center of her aesthetic research. Without ever showing the faces of his models, the artist dresses them in different materials: earth, sand, mud.
Kalidou Kassé is a Senegalese visual artist, painter and sculptor. He is the President of the Senegalese Committee International Association of Plastic Arts delegated to UNESCO, former member of the National Council of Audiovisual Regulation of Senegal (CNRA).
Khassim MBAYE belongs to this new generation of designers born after Senegal’s independence. He paints without worrying too much about restrictive aesthetic formalities, but with a certain rigor in the occupation of space.
Malick Ceesay, Gambian artist based in Dakar at the Village des Arts. Ceesay, painter and sculptor signed his paintings Cisse. His works are in the Benetton collection.
Kré Mbaye is a Senegalese painter. He comes from the second generation of the « School of Dakar ».
Fola Lawson, self-taught, he began painting in 1995 under the leadership of the Togolese painter Sokey Edorh. Singer, composer and master of the art of batik, Senegal was a milestone in his life.
Mahmoud Bâba LY was born in Thiès. He is the son of the painter Amadou Dédé LY. Trained by his father in the 2000s in his studio in the Village des Arts in Dakar, he quickly took his own path and became one of the most dynamic painters of his generation.
Samba Diallo was born in Dakar (Senegal). From a young age he has had a certain interest in painting and the plastic arts. Samba Diallo is self-taught, his works are only more extraordinary than the others.
Mouhamadou Dia is one of the rare Senegalese figurative painters. After four years of studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dakar, he went to the Royal Academy of Brussels in Belgium. His well-known wrestling series is the fruit of several years of work that began in 2004 on traditional Senegalese sport.
Serine Macene is a Senegalese painter offering fine, precise painting with colored pointillism. He defines himself as a citizen of the world.
He distinguished himself in particular by being the first African painter to produce the frescoes on the dome of the Château de Colombe Bia in Côte d’Ivoire.
Toni was born on January 24, 1962, and graduated from the Auchi Polytechnic School of Art and Design in 1983 with his Higher National Diploma in Painting. He worked with African Guardian magazine as an illustrator before embarking on a full-time workshop practice.
Zulu Mbaye is undoubtedly the Senegalese visual artist whose creations constitute a major cultural work in the landscape of contemporary visual arts. Because Zulu Mbaye has a keen sense of the African imagination while tracing, with each volute of colors, a very unique creative universe. His paintings are the expression of a mastery of his art while provoking a permanent renewal that amazes our eyes.
A graduate of the National School of Arts in Dakar, Plastic Arts Training, Kemboury Bessane, very young had only one dream, to become an artist. In fact, she was one of the best designers in her various classes in elementary and secondary school. And his dream became a reality with his first collective exhibition, in The Gambia in 2004. Several other exhibitions will follow around the world.